Search Results - subject:"Incentive Mechanism"

Environmental-Regulation Pricing Strategies for Green Supply Chain Management

Chen, Yenming; Sheu, Jiuh-Biing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper demonstrates that a proper design of environmental-regulation pricing strategies is able to promote Extended Product Responsibility for green supply chain firms in a competitive market. A differential game model comprising Vidale-Wolfe equation has been established in light of sales...

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Patent Systems for Encouraging Innovation: Lessons from Economic Analysis

Encaoua, David; Guellec, Dominique; Martínez, Catalina - HAL - 2006

Economic theory views patents as policy instruments aimed at fostering innovation and diffusion. Three major implications are drawn regarding current policy debates. First, patents may not be the most effective means of protection for inventors to recover R&D investments when imitation is costly...

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A game theory analysis of market incentives for US switchgrass ethanol

Luo, Yi; Miller, Shelie - In: Ecological Economics 93 (2013) C, pp. 42-56

explored to determine its efficacy as an incentive mechanism. Results indicate that a carbon market would only be sufficient to …

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Self-organized formation and evolution of peer-to-peer networks

Li, Yung-Ming; Tan, Yong; De, Prabuddha - In: INFORMS journal on computing : JOC 25 (2013) 3, pp. 502-516

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A system dynamics approach for investigating impacts of incentive mechanisms on wind power investment

Alishahi, E.; Moghaddam, M. Parsa; Sheikh-El-Eslami, M.K. - In: Renewable Energy 37 (2012) 1, pp. 310-317

Large integration of intermittent wind generation in power system has necessitated the inclusion of more innovative and sophisticated approaches in power system investment planning. The intermittent nature and uncertainties of wind power generation will cause the investors encounter risk in...

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Managerial Incentive Mechanisms and Turnover of Company Presidents and Directors in Japan

Abe, Naohito - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2004

The role of directors in Japanese companies is unique in a number of ways. One such characteristic is the dual nature of their role, which encompasses both monitoring and managing responsibilities. This paper considers their role in management. Empirical analysis with detailed data for each...

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When Acquisition Spoils Retention: Direct Selling vs. Delegation Under CRM

Dong, Yan; Yao, Yuliang; Cui, Tony Haitao - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 7, pp. 1288-1299

The widespread implementation of customer relationship management technologies in business has allowed companies to increasingly focus on both acquiring and retaining customers. The challenge of designing incentive mechanisms that simultaneously focus on customer acquisition and customer...

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Asymmetrically Dominated Alternatives and Random Incentive Mechanisms

Schmidt, Ulrich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This note presents an experimental study of the random lottery incentive mechanism. In the baseline treatment we … in a random incentive mechanism risk behavior can be manipulated systematically. This implies that the isolation … hypothesis is violated the random incentive mechanism does not elicit true preferences …

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Signaling Rather than Incentive Mechanism for Entry Regulation

Kim, Jaehong - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2001

the incentive mechanism for the optimal price regulation, the signaling mechanism induces the regulated firm to deviate … information can be better than that under complete information, if the government uses signaling mechanism rather than incentive … mechanism. The main difference between screening and signaling is who initiates information transmission process. Contrary to …

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Feasible and Continuous Double Implementation of Constrained Walrasian Allocations

Tian, Guoqiang - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 1 (2000) 1, pp. 19-32

This paper provides a simple, feasible, and continuous mechanism whose Nash allocations and strong Nash allocations coincide with constrained Walrasian allocations for pure exchange economies. This mechanism allows not only references and initial endowments but also coalition patterns to be...

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